Lysias Against Diogeiton 20

W.R.M. Lamb (Translator)

Against Diogeiton. Lysias. W.R.M. Lamb (Translator). London. 1930.

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Current edition Perseus

Against Diogeiton (English) (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.)

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κατὰ Διογείτονος Perseus (Lysias. Lamb, W.R.M., editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1930.) — 20 focus

Notes on the current edition

Against Diogeiton

1. At this period the daily cost of food for an adult could be reckoned at one obol: in the present case, for the food (other than cereal) of three children, the charge of five obols is at least twice what it should be. A more reasonable scale is suggested by the speaker at Lys. 32.28 below.